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title: Exodus 29:37 (JPS 1917) — Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it;… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; thus shall the altar be most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy. Who acts: thou, altar, whatsoever. Exodus 29:37 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exodus 29:37 · JPS 1917

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Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; thus shall the altar be most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

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**Who acts:** thou, altar, whatsoever · **What happens:** make, sanctify, be, touch · **To what, where:** atonement, altar

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This is Exodus 29:37 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, altar, whatsoever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:EXO:878
# text = Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; thus shall the altar be most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	atonement	atonement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sanctify	sanctify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
24	toucheth	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | shall | thou | atonement |  |  | day | for the altar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent atonement=Product for altar=Asset |
| 2 | **sanctify** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | atonement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | shall | the altar |  |  |  |  | holy, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **touch** | present |  | the altar |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme altar=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **is** | shall | whatsoever |  |  |  |  | holy *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֗ים תְּכַפֵּר֙ עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ וְקִדַּשְׁתָּ֖ אֹת֑וֹ וְהָיָ֤ה הַמִּזְבֵּ֙חַ֙ קֹ֣דֶשׁ קָֽדָשִׁ֔ים כָּל־הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בַּמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ יִקְדָּֽשׁ׃ס

[Exodus 29:37: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.37/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:878` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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